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Recent Research on Women’s Ordination and Preaching
Recent Research on Women’s Ordination and Preaching
We’re sometimes asked for more recent resources supporting the ordination of women in the Anglican Church – here are...
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MOW 2024 Conference “Lead like a Woman” Resource List
MOW 2024 Conference “Lead like a Woman” Resource List
The following resources may be helpful in addressing violence, abuse and control of women in the church. VI...
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New Book: Read for Free
New Book: Read for Free
The new book by Tracy McEwan, Women and the Catholic Church: Negotiating Identity and Agency, is now available to read ...
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Voices of Change: Women Led Reistance in Catholic Communities
Voices of Change: Women Led Reistance in Catholic Communities
Voices of Change: Women Led Reistance in Catholic Communities Dr Tracy McEwan University of Newcastle, Australia ...
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Ministering from the Margins and Leading Like a Mother
Ministering from the Margins and Leading Like a Mother
Ministering from the Margins and Leading Like a Mother Margaret Mowczko An address given at the MOW 40th Anniversary C...
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Still Burning Witches: The Church and Sexual Violence
Still Burning Witches: The Church and Sexual Violence
Still Burning Witches: The Church and Sexual Violence As presented by Rev’d Dr Miryam Clough to MOW's 40th Annive...
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Leading like a woman: will our Church have women leaders in the future?
Leading like a woman: will our Church have women leaders in the future?
A Paper Presented by Archdeacon Dr Colleen O’Reilly AM for the MOW Conference, Brisbane 28-30 November 2024 ...
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Richard Hooker and the Via Media
Richard Hooker and the Via Media
I am preparing to preach on my hero, Richard Hooker tomorrow, Wednesday 4/11. There is a very inspiring piece in a book ...
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GENDER-BASED BELIEF: A New Ethic for Christianity
GENDER-BASED BELIEF: A New Ethic for Christianity
Gender-Balanced Belief: A New Ethic for Christianity: a new book by Mavis Rose Gender-Balanced Belief calls on the chu...
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Simone Weil and the gift of inarticulacy
Simone Weil and the gift of inarticulacy
How not to live in lockdown Simone Weil (1909-1943) is a thinker of ‘asphasia’: the inability to speak ...
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The Case for Open Borders in Theological Study
The Case for Open Borders in Theological Study
Recently a female seminarian posted the following lament on Twitter: “You’d think after all these years in semina...
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The New Scapegoats
The New Scapegoats
The New Scapegoats: The clergy victims of the Anglican Church sexual abuse crisis, by Muriel Porter (Morning Star Publis...
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CELEBRATING THE EUCHARIST
CELEBRATING THE EUCHARIST
As I prepare on a Saturday for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy, to preside at the Eucharist, I am someti...
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A healthy antidote to Scriptural literalism of any sort
A healthy antidote to Scriptural literalism of any sort
There have been some very public debates within the Church of Ireland and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland about the d...
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Are ‘conservative evangelicals’ really conservative and evangelical?
Are ‘conservative evangelicals’ really conservative and evangelical?
There are stages in my life when I have been strongly influenced by the Evangelical tradition, a tradition that has help...
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Why the Church needs to recover a teaching of the Trinity that is relevant today
Why the Church needs to recover a teaching of the Trinity that is relevant today
The comedian Brendan Grace has given us the urchin-like Dublin street child he names ‘Bottler.’ He once told of a co...
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A Challenge to Complementarians
A Challenge to Complementarians
The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to b...
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Kevin Giles
Kevin Giles
Is God Male? Kevin Giles For the last forty years, the traditional way of speaking and thinking of God as a ...
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Kevin Giles
Kevin Giles
Complementarians and Abuse of Women: Kevin Giles' Newest Book Giles explores two church bodies: SBC a...
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